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Friday, February 20, 2009

Networking With Facebook - Is It A Good Idea?

It seems everyone is networking with Facebook these days. And up to now most were happy with it.

2 comments:

I just recently joined, probably a couple months back, with Facebook, and had heard on G4 (a tech and gaming television station) that they'd done some weird thing with their TOS, but wasn't sure what it was -was only partially paying attention- and had also in that segment, heard they'd pulled an about face on that. Have you heard anything of that?

Good article by the way. The way it reads to me, is that while I have the right to do so, it doesn't mean I have to do so.

If I have the right to do so, I also have the right to tell them hands off. I guess I'd have to actually put such a disclaimer on any content I actually submitted to the site, so they can't state their TOS demands it's "Facebook Domain", so to speak.

In any case, there's another site, that I socially network through, called imvu.com (a 3D chat environment site, with home pages like myspace, but much more customizable) and they were trying to do things with their TOS that actually made it a "contract of adhesion", which is like a forced contract that actually would have no legal bearing, because no one with any sensible reasoning would agree to it.

I wonder if that applies. It might not in Facebook's case, because the site is different than IMVU, where-as IMVU essentially provides its users with a business model, in that they can become content creators.

Facebook really doesn't have any such built in end-user business model, which users might wind up getting "locked into" in order to provide their primary income.

In IMVU's case, there are lots of Developers that utilize their content creation to provide their primary income.

So to tell them "agree or leave" puts them in a "contract of adhesion" situation, whereby to leave, it actually impinges upon their primary income at that point.

I hope this is making sense. In any case, I don't agree with Facebook doing something like that, really.

In any case, this has gotten long enough. I do agree that in business, I believe that integrity, and ethical behavior should take priority. Perhaps the Facebook team needs to take a cue from the "cluetrain manifesto".

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